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Beings will also not completely degenerate. Seeing truth in the very reality. Whoever cultivates what is in accordance with the definitive distinction of the ground of actual meditation, will undoubtedly see the truths in this very life, because aversion is predominant. If degenerated, then the unreal is attained. When one attains through degeneration, then, like the vows of individual liberation, only what was not there before is attained, but not what was previously abandoned, because it is unfamiliar and must be diligently cultivated. If there is something that indicates the boundary, then it causes the higher to arise. If not, then it arises only from the base. What is the nature of these degenerations and complete degenerations? The two degenerations are non-possession. The two degenerations are of the nature of non-possession, and complete degeneration is caused by faults, but degeneration is certain. One who has attained warmth, even if completely degenerated, is certainly of the nature of nirvana. What is the difference between being in accordance with the part of liberation? If there is no obstacle, then it is very close to seeing the truth. One who has attained the peak does not cut off the root. One who has attained the peak, even if completely degenerated, will not completely cut off the roots of virtue, and will also go to bad destinies and also commit the deeds of immediate retribution. One who has attained patience does not go to bad destinies. Even if one degenerates from patience, one does not go to bad destinies, because the karma and afflictions of going there have been cut off. Only one who has attained patience obtains the nature of not being born in some of the realms, birthplaces, births, bodies, existences, and afflictions. That is, not being born in bad destinies, egg-born, the birthplaces of moisture-born, unconscious beings, the unpleasant sound of the northern Kurus, births in the Great Brahma, bridges, the bodies of hermaphrodites and bisexuals, the eighth existence and so on, and the unborn nature of the afflictions to be abandoned by sight. These are as appropriate, the small one obtains not being born in bad destinies, and the great one obtains the others. Because of the different lineages of Hearers and so on.